Here are fall’s hottest architecture, sustainability, and social theory events on the East Coast – The Architect’s Newspaper

AN has assembled another collection of exhibitions, lectures, and conferences in the coming week that feature artists, architects, policymakers, and thinkers reflecting on aesthetic, social, ecological, and design strategies for the modern world. If youre in or around New York City, stop by and enrich yourself.

Check out the events below:

Rashid Johnson, The Hikers at Hauser + Wirth

Installation view of Rashid Johnsons The Hikers (Thomas Barratt)

Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd StreetOpening reception: November 12, 6:00 8:00 p.m.November 12 through January 25, 2020

Rashid Johnsons The Hikers show includes ceramic tile mosaics, collaged paintings, a large-scale bronze sculpture sprouting plants, and an installation of his latest film shot in Colorado, using the combination of mountain landscapes and body movement to express the psychological consequences and challenges of the modern world and its injustices. Johnson asks: What are the movements like when a black man is walking past a police officer? Or when a black man is suffering from agoraphobia?

Urban Thinkers Campus: Accelerating the SDGs in Cities

A conference at Columbia calls attention to the Paris Climate Accords Sustainable Development Goals (Courtesy Columbia University)

Kellogg Center, Columbia University, SIPA 15th FloorNovember 13, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

GSAPP, Wood Auditorium, 1st Floor420 West 118th Street, Room 1501November 14, 10:30 a.m. 4:00 p.m.

The Urban Thinkers Campus is a UN Habitat framework for critical exchange between stakeholders and partners to promote sustainable urbanization. Columbia Universitys Center for Sustainable Urban Development is hosting Accelerating the SDGs in Cities, promoting the Paris Climate Agreements Sustainable Development Goals as a tool to evaluate projects on the basis of the 193-nation agreement. Emphasizing the urgency of meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals, it shepherds academics, professionals, and participants of civil society to generate ideas for action and methodologies to expedite action on the SDGs. The event will also include a complementary gallery of 100 local projects from more than 30 countries, considered according to how they meet the goals.

The Great Hall, Cooper UnionNovember 14 through 16, various timesKickoff Event: November 14, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.LOLA, 169 Avenue A, New York

The tenth Creative Time Summit, Speaking Truth, continues the public art organizations discussion of social, political, and aesthetic questions through keynote presentations, group discussions, workshops, and performances. Traveling to DC, Toronto, and Miami in recent years, it returns to New York City to the Great Hall at Cooper Union and sites around the East Village, asking whether the long-time activist cliche of speaking truth to power can rescue us from disillusionment. Maybe not, but some of the usual suspects of socially engaged art will be mixed with new faces to challenge whether art can be more than another sideshow of collapsing civic life, politics, and media culture.

Francis Kr: Work Report

Francis Kr (Astrid Eckert/TU Muenchen)

Yale ArchitectureHastings Hall, 180 York Street, Basement Level, New Haven, CTNovember 14, 6:30 p.m.

Krs lecture at Yale promises an update on his recent projects, with an emphasis on his communal approach to design and commitment to sustainable materials and modes of construction, drawing on the social and physical particularities of localities. Based in Berlin, Kr Architectures current work includes the Burkina Faso National Assembly, the Lyce Schorge Secondary School, the Lo Surgical Clinic & Health Centre, the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion, and Xylem, the recently opened pavilion for Tippet Rise Art Center.

The Green New Deal: A Public Assembly

Queens MuseumNew York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, QueensNovember 17, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Advocates, organizers, and elected officialsincluding a rumored appearance by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in her districtwill gather for this conference jointly organized by the Buell Center at Columbia GSAPP with the Queens Museum, AIA New York, the Architecture Lobby, Francisco J. Casablanca (Quin Nos Representa?), and Green New Deal organizer and architect Gabriel Hernndez Solano. Following the drafting of a set of general principles for how to equitably redress climate crisis in House Resolution 109 and Senate Resolution 59, The Green New Deal: A Public Assembly includes morning workshops and an afternoon series of discussions to encourage invited guests and the public to think systemically and across scales.

Alphonso Lingis, Irrevocable

Alphonso Lingis (Courtesy the New School)

The New SchoolGIDEST Lab at 63 Fifth Avenue, Room 411November 22, 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.

The philosopher Alphonso Lingis lectures on the irrevocable at the GIDEST Seminar, the New Schools weekly discussion at the Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography & Social Thought. Author of a series of books on places of alterity and social cohesion, including The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common, The Imperative, Dangerous Emotions, Trust, and Violence and Splendor,Lingiss work draws from continental philosophy, phenomenology, and engages in philosophical-ethnographic travel meditations, often focused on bodily experience.

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